*Sherri Shepherd revealed on her talk show this week that her former “View” boss Barbara Walters slept with Richard Pryor.
During Wednesday’s episode of the “Sherri” show, Shepherd reunited with her former “View” co-host Joy Behar and recalled when late comedian Paul Mooney spilled the tea about Walters and Pryor.
“The thing about it is, I would tell you stuff and then you would go and tell it,” Shepherd told Behar, Entertainment Weekly reports. “I never told this before, but I’m going to tell it. I told Joy that I had run into Paul Mooney, and Paul Mooney had said that he caught Barbara Walters with Richard Pryor.”
She added, “I came and I told you, and I said, ‘Paul Mooney said he caught Barbara with Richard Prior—he walked in on them. And then I was like, ‘Don’t tell nobody!’” Shepherd said. “The next day, Barbara walks in and you go… something like, ‘So, you’re schlepping Richard Prior, huh?’”
Behar laughed as she remembered not telling Walters that it was Shepherd who dropped the bombshell.
“No, you didn’t, but [you] said something like, ‘So, you’re schlepping Richard Pryor, huh?'” Shepherd told Behar. “She turned around and, you know, Barbara’s head would swivel like that, and she goes, ‘Who told you that?’ And I’m sitting there, and I just got this job, and, Joy, you do that because you’re not scared of Barbara.”
Watch their conversation via the YouTube clip above.
Meanwhile, Shepherd once told The Daily Beast that Walters was a “big mentor.”
“She was tough on me. She was really, really tough on me. But I’m glad because it helps me in this area right here,” she said.
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